Outstanding contributions

Recognition of a Research Project usually comes long after the work and ideas on which it is based. Clare Hall has made an important contribution to the research careers of many of its members and we are happy to have played a part in some truly inspirational projects.

Many former Clare Hall Visiting Fellows have been awarded Nobel Prizes:

Ivor Giaever was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973

Joseph Brodsky, a Visiting Fellow and poet in residence in Clare Hall in 1977-8, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987.

Seamus Heaney, a Life Member of Clare Hall, received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

Paul Berg - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1980 for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.

Kim Dae Jung - Nobel Peace Prize 2000 for his "work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular".